Subject: doncaster tourney report 12/7 Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:25:30 +0100 From: mark whittaker Newsgroups: uk.games.trading-cards.misc only around 62 turned up disappointing turn out-team punica had 7 memebers there i played the green deck that got into the top 8 at the us nationals after buying the 1 vineyard i needed for 4 quid round 1-vs red/white mogg maniac/en kor thing game 1 killed all his red land with molds etc-pummelled him with mana burn and scrolls game 2 he had 3rd turn soltari champion with armour-i went weaver/weaver/wildebeest-i win round 2-vs green/blue white tradewind lock game 1-fairly easy win with lots of wildebeest damage game 2-me vineyard/vineyard-him maro/ maro 1-1 game 3-beasted him with scragnoth round 3-vs mono green with ghoyfs/killer bees game 1- i draw lots of land 2 scrolls-desert twist his big critters win game 2-i take early beating to 7 life-lock him down with weaver/wildebeest beat him with 12/11 beest round 4-vs mon red sligh game 1-me vineyard vineyard-him scroll scroll i lose game 2- i kill scrolls early with apes lock him down when i'm on 14 life-kill him with beest game 3-see game 2 exactly the same i finish on 14 life round 5-vs black hatred deck game 1-only see wastelands lose on turn 3 game 2-1st turn vineyard 2nd turn spike feeder he attacks with shadower-culls sarco token-hatred for 18-i sac a token i'm on 2 hes on 2-i attack for 1-he takes 1 off sarcomancy(btw this was jeremy peter duck if you want a laugh) game 3- i go to 4 life get a lock with 2 feeders -1 weaver-lifeforce-vineyard-i win round 6-id i go onto 16 points 1st after swiss qf-play jasons tradewind lock deck that i beat 2-1 in rd2-despite early win in 1st game he gets lock on in next 2-i lose 5 out of top 8 were team punica members-carl thompson(little kid)(big blue) beat ben martin(big blue) andy holmes(ww) beat crazy ian(dread panda) tom stanton(5cg) beat jeremy duck(black weenie) in the swiss losing only to toms 5cg andy holmes beat carl jason beat-tom andy and jason split the spoils-go home watch france win world cup btw andy has a 1550 ish rating and played with my other deck-a replica of the ww that won the us nationals-he went 5-1 losing only to the 5cg utility deck played by tom